Improvement in oilers



rrED STATES;V PATENT Ormea.-

PARLEY LAFLIN, on WARREN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN OILERS.

. ll Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,10?, dated September 18, 1866.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known4 that I, PARLEY LAFLIN, of Warren, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invent-ed certain new and useful Improvements in Oilers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- V Figure l is a perspective View of my improved oiler, portions of its exterior being removed to show the construction within. Fig. 2' is a central vertical section through the same Fig. 3, detail to be referred to.

The object of my invention is to facilitate the ordinary operation of oiling machinery; and it consists ill providing the tube,of an oiler with a removable bifurcated guide, which lits around the article to be oiled, thus rendering it particularly applicable for oiling the spindles of spinning-frames, which operation by the ordinary means of oiling is extremely inconvenient 'to perform, owing to the difficulty of keeping the point of the tube from slipping oft' the side of the spindle.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

In the said drawings, A is the casing, across the interior of which extends the metal strip 15, provided with a hole for the passage of the lower end ofthe rod a.,on which is placed the valve b, which is of a conical shape, as seen in Fig. 2, and is pressed upward snugly against a correspondingly-shaped portion of the interior of the tube C by the resistance of a spiral spring, c, which surrounds the valve-rod a., which is provided with an enlargement, d, against the under side of which'bears the upper end of the spring c, the lower end of the spring c resting upon the strip B.

The lower end of the tube C passes through a circular cap, D, and is soldered or otherwise secured to the upper end lof the casing A, while upon the upper end of the tube C is cnt a screw-thread for the reception ot' a guidepiece, E, provided with two projections or bifurcations, e, which embrace the spindle or 4 other similar article when required to be oiled.

fis a passage, which opens at g4 into the interior of the receptacle containing the oil, and communicates with the air outside to allow the oil to be fed from the tube C when the valve bis open.

rIhe above-described oiler is adapted for general use, as when the bifurcated cap is removed it is only necessary to press the point of the stem against the article to be oiled, when the valve is opened and the oil runs down to the point h of the stem as required, while with the bifurcated cap in place upon the tube a small spindle may be embraced, so as to prevent the stem from slipping O', and the oiling operation performed in a convenient and expeditious manner. When not in-.use

the tube of an oiler, substantially as and for the purpose Set forth.

11i l PARLEY xs LAFLIN.

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Witnesses J. W. CHADSEY, M. K. WHIPPLE. 

